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Getting duration from embed episode with ID

xu_group — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:20:22 GMT

I'm using spotify podcast to be hosted by a website. I need to get the podcast duration from embed link. Something like this "https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/26CbyH3PccV573LrPKmmcb"

What API exactely should call? note that I'm using node.js

Thanks in advacne.

Re: Getting duration from embed episode with ID

Ximzend — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:09:38 GMT

If you have the Client Credentials flow set up, you can use the Get Episode endpoint to get the duration in milliseconds using the episode id.

Re: Getting duration from embed episode with ID

xu_group — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 08:01:11 GMT

Thank you for your kind respond.

It seems that the Spotify using ID different from the embed:embed:ID . I tried the following:

If I use this link

"https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/26CbyH3PccV573LrPKmmcb"

and it runs in the browser but as soon I use the ID like this:

GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/episodes/26CbyH3PccV573LrPKmmcb HTTP/1.1

Content-Type: application/json

Authorization: Bearer XXX

I get error:

{ "error": { "status": 404, "message": "Non existing id: 'spotify:episode:26CbyH3PccV573LrPKmmcb'" } }

What do I miss here ?

Re: Getting duration from embed episode with ID

Ximzend — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:12:44 GMT

Because you are using Client Credentials, you'll need to specify the market.

Re: Getting duration from embed episode with ID

xu_group — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:56:25 GMT

Hmm, did not know about that!

May you support me please providing me with some links to read more about what to do in specific ?

Thank you so much for your kind support.

Re: Getting duration from embed episode with ID

xu_group — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 07:59:06 GMT

Okay I see the missing parameter of market. I will check how to grab this variable. Thank you for your kind support.

Re: Getting duration from embed episode with ID

xu_group — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:44:03 GMT

I wrote a code to embed "market=XX" for all markets coming from the API https://api.spotify.com/v1/markets
All failed unfortunately? Any alternative idea?

Re: Getting duration from embed episode with ID

Ximzend — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:52:53 GMT

XX must be replaced with one country code such as US. Spotify isn't available in XX.

Maybe I understood your last message.

What have you already made?

Re: Getting duration from embed episode with ID

xu_group — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:31:19 GMT

Hey @Ximazend,

Here are the things I did in steps:

- Fetch a token from client ID and secret ID.

- Fetch markets from https://api.spotify.com/v1/markets

That returns me the following response:

{ "markets": [ "AD", "AE", "AG", "AL", "AM", "AO", "AR", "AT", "AU", "AZ", "BA", "BB", "BD", "BE", "BF", "BG", "BH", "BI", "BJ", "BN", "BO", "BR", "BS", "BT", "BW", "BY", "BZ", "CA", "CD", "CG", "CH", "CI", "CL", "CM", "CO", "CR", "CV", "CW", "CY", "CZ", "DE", "DJ", "DK", "DM", "DO", "DZ", "EC", "EE", "EG", "ES", "ET", "FI", "FJ", "FM", "FR", "GA", "GB", "GD", "GE", "GH", "GM", "GN", "GQ", "GR", "GT", "GW", "GY", "HK", "HN", "HR", "HT", "HU", "ID", "IE", "IL", "IN", "IQ", "IS", "IT", "JM", "JO", "JP", "KE", "KG", "KH", "KI", "KM", "KN", "KR", "KW", "KZ", "LA", "LB", "LC", "LI", "LK", "LR", "LS", "LT", "LU", "LV", "LY", "MA", "MC", "MD", "ME", "MG", "MH", "MK", "ML", "MN", "MO", "MR", "MT", "MU", "MV", "MW", "MX", "MY", "MZ", "NA", "NE", "NG", "NI", "NL", "NO", "NP", "NR", "NZ", "OM", "PA", "PE", "PG", "PH", "PK", "PL", "PS", "PT", "PW", "PY", "QA", "RO", "RS", "RW", "SA", "SB", "SC", "SE", "SG", "SI", "SK", "SL", "SM", "SN", "SR", "ST", "SV", "SZ", "TD", "TG", "TH", "TJ", "TL", "TN", "TO", "TR", "TT", "TV", "TW", "TZ", "UA", "UG", "US", "UY", "UZ", "VC", "VE", "VN", "VU", "WS", "XK", "ZA", "ZM", "ZW" ] }

- I wrote a script to loop through those values and attach them like this GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/episodes/{id}?market=${market} including auth Bearer <TOKEN>

And they failed all of them 😞

If you need to see some code, let me know so I can post some links for the it.
Thank you so much and looking forward for your support.

Re: Getting duration from embed episode with ID

Ximzend — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:39:35 GMT

Yes, some code will be helpful. Just specifying one market should be sufficient normally.

Re: Getting duration from embed episode with ID

xu_group — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 08:47:29 GMT

Hey @Ximazend,

I'm happy to share with you that I managed to run the script successfully. For a further documentation of "how to", then this is my snippet code.

https://codepen.io/Ahmed_B_Hameed/pen/YzdmgPK?editors=1112

Thank you once more.
Ahmed.